NOOK Media LLC, a subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS),
the leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products,
announced it will bring even more popular movies and TV shows to its
expansive NOOK Video offering through newly announced content licensing
partnerships with major studios and content providers including
Lionsgate (NYSE: LGF), MGM, Paramount Pictures, Relativity Media,
National Geographic, Little Pim, and Film Buff. NOOK Video continues to
deliver a growing and diverse catalog of favorite standard and HD movies
and TV shows rendered in spectacular color and stunning definition on
NOOK® HD, the world’s highest-resolution 7-inch HD tablet,
and NOOK® HD+, the lightest full 9-inch HD tablet.

Offering instant access to a wealth of digital entertainment, NOOK Video
lets customers shop a vast collection of new releases, blockbuster
titles, popular television shows, favorite classics and more, available
for streaming or download. NOOK’s newly announced content agreements
will bring thousands of additional movies and TV shows for all ages and
interests to the NOOK Video catalog, including the blockbuster films The
Hunger Games, the Twilight movies, Tyler Perry's Madea
Gets a Job, Skyfall, Rocky, Fargo, Flight,
Paranormal Activity 4, Act of Valor, Safe Haven, House at the
End of the Street; independent films from Film Buff’s catalog
including Charles Swan and Exit from the Gift Shop; and TV
shows like Mad Men, Border Wars, Great Migrations, Amazing
Planet; as well as educational content via Little Pim, the leading
foreign language learning program for young children, plus many more.

“With the addition of these industry-leading studio partners, NOOK Video
continues to expand its already robust offering, providing customers
with an even wider selection of their favorite movies and TV shows,”
said Jonathan Shar, Vice President & General Manager, Emerging Digital
Content, NOOK Media LLC. “Combined with NOOK’s seamless UltraViolet™
integration, we are offering customers one of the most dynamic and
accessible movie and TV show stores available.”

“NOOK is one of a growing spectrum of new digital buyers for our film
and TV content and illustrates the breadth and depth of opportunities
for monetizing our content across a broad array of platforms,” said
Thomas Hughes, Lionsgate Senior VP Digital/On Demand. “We look forward
to an exciting and productive partnership with NOOK.”

“We are very excited to begin transactional distribution of our films on
NOOK. This furthers our goal of reaching the widest possible audience
using all available technologies,” added Relativity’s David Spiegelman,
President, Domestic Television & Digital Distribution.

NOOK HD and NOOK HD+ offer everything that customers want in a tablet,
with millions of books, apps, movies, TV shows, magazines and more
available in the expansive NOOK Store of more than 3 million titles.
These new 7-and 9-inch tablets are lightweight, but packed with pixels
to deliver text, graphics and video with stunning HD clarity so every
book, magazine, movie and app looks better than ever before. Add new
family-friendly features like NOOK Profiles™, a personalized
experience that instantly transforms the device in hand to any family
member’s very own tablet, and you have the very best reading and
entertainment tablets for the whole family to share.

NOOK also brings unmatched convenience and portability to customers’
digital video collections. As the first UltraViolet-enabled tablets,
NOOK HD and NOOK HD+ seamlessly integrate a customer’s UltraViolet
digital video collection across their devices right out of the box.
Customers can easily link their UltraViolet accounts to the NOOK Cloud™,
allowing them to view their previously and newly purchased
UltraViolet-enabled movies and TV shows across NOOK HD and NOOK HD+
devices. In addition to purchasing movies and TV shows via NOOK Video,
customers can shop for DVDs and Blu-ray Discs™ with the
UltraViolet logo in Barnes & Noble and other retail stores, add them to
their digital collection, and instantly watch compatible titles from the
NOOK Cloud™ to enjoy wherever they go and however they choose.

For more information on NOOK Video or the critically acclaimed NOOK HD
and NOOK HD+, customers can visit www.nook.com
or visit the NOOK Digital Shops™ and displays in any of
Barnes & Noble’s nearly 700 bookstores for more information. Barnes &
Noble offers Always Free NOOK Support in all of its neighborhood
bookstores, with more than 35,000 NOOKsellers™ across the
country ready to assist customers with setting up and getting the most
out of their NOOK devices.

About Barnes & Noble, Inc.

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE:BKS) is a Fortune 500 company and the leading
retailer of content, digital media and educational products. The company
operates 677 Barnes & Noble bookstores in 50 states, and one of the
Web’s largest e-commerce sites, BN.com (www.bn.com).
Its NOOK Media LLC subsidiary is a leader in the emerging digital
reading and digital education markets. The NOOK digital business offers
award-winning NOOK® products and an expansive collection of digital
reading and entertainment content through the NOOK Store™ (www.nook.com),
while Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC operates 678 bookstores
serving over 4.6 million students and faculty members at colleges and
universities across the United States. Barnes & Noble is proud to be
named a J.D. Power and Associates 2012 Customer Service Champion and is
only one of 50 U.S. companies so named. Barnes & Noble.com is ranked the
number one online retailer in customer satisfaction in the book, music
and video category and a Top 10 online retailer overall in customer
satisfaction according to ForeSee E-Retail Satisfaction Index (Spring
Top 100 Edition).

General information on Barnes & Noble, Inc. can be obtained via the
Internet by visiting the company's corporate website: www.barnesandnobleinc.com.

NOOK®, NOOK Store™, NOOK Video™, NOOK
Video Apps™ are trademarks of Barnes & Noble, Inc. Other
trademarks referenced in this release are the property of their
respective owners.

NOOK reading and entertainment products make it easy to read what you
love, anywhere you like™ with a fun, easy-to-use and
immersive digital reading experience. With NOOK, customers gain access
to the expansive NOOK Store™ of more than 3 million digital
books, plus periodicals, comics, apps, movies and TV shows, and the
ability to enjoy content across a wide array of popular devices through
free NOOK Reading Apps™ and NOOK Video apps, available at www.nook.com/freenookapps.
NOOK owners receive Always Free NOOK Support in any of Barnes & Noble’s
nearly 700 bookstores. Find NOOK devices in Barnes & Noble stores and
online at www.nook.com,
as well as leading retailers including Best Buy, Walmart, Target and
many others. NOOK products are available in the United Kingdom through www.nook.co.uk and leading
retailers.